Effective Ways to Improve Your Free Throw Shooting in Basketball

Kobe Bryant taking a free throw attempt.

Free throw shooting may play a great role in crucial stages of a basketball game. It may help a team cruise to a rousing victory over their pesky opponents or perhaps tie the game and ensue an overtime in the offing.

In NBA, players that are poor shooters are usually fouled and in turn given the opportunity to shoot in the free throw line. Of course, the chance of missing the mark is higher especially when the one that is attempting to chip in bonus points has an atrocious free throw shooting percentage. Hence, free throw shooting is important and it is should be given importance by any players.

Here are some effective tips and pointers to improve further on your free throw shooting:

1. Practice a lot. Shoot from the free throw line as many as you can, and the more you shoot the better you will get. Remember that Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is a deadly shooter aside from of course being a respected and ferocious slasher. He is shooting hundreds of attempts from any corners of the basketball court including the free throw line. Doing this a lot, will make you comfortable while shooting from the free throw line and makes you familiar with the distance and the force you will exert on the ball en route to sure points.

2. While practicing you must have a firm grip of the ball and your arms should be in perpendicular to your body.

3. Take your time while shooting to get your groove.

4. Control the pressure, never mind the crowd just concentrate in shooting those points from the free throw line one at a time.

5. Enjoy shooting the giveaway points, they are yours to take, and it is ironic not to pull through since no one is guarding you, hehehe.

Here it is cues, tips or pointers that will help you develop into a absolute free throw shooter.

Compilation or Collection of Kobe Bryant Quotations or Quotes

Kobe Bryant is perhaps one of the most popular basketball players in the NBA and in the world right now. Kobe which dons the Los Angeles Jersey playing as a Lakers, was tabbed as the 13^th Pick in the 1996 NBA draft, after he was traded by the then Charlotte Hornets for Yusgoslavian now Serbian Vlade Divac. Bryant was a bright prospect ever since he went straight to the NBA upon graduation from high school and made great impact as a rookie. Teaming a formidable one-two punch with Shaquille O’neal, they helped the Lakers collar three straight NBA Championships from 2002 to 2004. The behemoth O’neal parted ways with Bryant and the Lakers in 2004 and the electrifying and exciting Bryant carried the cudgel for his team from then on. Bryant was the scoring leader twice in the NBA and even scored a very impressive 81 points over Toronto Raptors, second best ever in a single game in the NBA, next only to NBA legend Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points. Also dubbed as the Black Mamba, Bryant bagged the MVP plum in the 2008-2009. In 2009, Bryant captured his fourth championship with the Lakers, the list of accomplishments is indeed astonishing and he is still expected to earn more accolades in the near future if God permits though, for Bryant is always a work in progress and always practice as hard as he could. Moreover, Bryant’s savvy plays in the floor is even reinforced with his maturity in the court, for he is now unselfish and would be willing to carry his team with sheer teamwork and chemistry.

Now here are some of Kobe Bryant’s inspirational quotations or quotes:

“What I’m doing right now, I’m chasing perfection.”

“As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don’t know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.”

“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

“I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”

“I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.”

“I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition – that’s what I’ve always wanted.”

“My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.”

“Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.”

 ”There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”

“These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”

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